So far, there is serious cognitive step needed that LLM just can’t do to get productive. They can output code but they don’t understand what’s going on. They don’t grasp architecture. Large projects don’t fit on their token window.
There’s a remarkably effective solution for this, that helps both humans and models alike - write documentation.
It’s actually kind of funny how the LLM wave has sparked a renaissance of high-quality documentation. Who would have thought?
Funnily enpugh, AI itself is a great tool to create that high quality documentation fairly efficiently, but obviously not autonomously.
Even complex systems can be documented up to a level that is easy and much less laborious for the subject experts and architects to comb through for fhe final version.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 days ago
High-quality documentation assumes there’s someone with experience working on this. That’s not the vibe coding they’re selling.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 5 days ago
Complete hands-off no-review no-technical experience vibe coding is obviously snake oil, yeah.
This is a pretty large problem when it comes to learning about LLM-based tooling: lots of noise, very little signal.
Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 4 days ago
I am not aware of what they are selling but every vibe coder i know produces obsessive amounts of documentation. It’s kind of baked into the tool (if you use Claude Code at least), it will just naturally produce a lot of documentation.